The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s plan of prevention has been trialled by combining regulation under the Kyoto Protocol with the dissuasive powers of a carbon dioxide trading system, for instance in Europe. From this … [Read more...] about Time for Plan B: Adaptation to Climate Change
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US Cap n Trade Legislation Unlikely to Pass
US Senator Kent Conrad said that it would be a “distant hope” to expect the climate change plan to pass unless it includes help for industries that would be hit hard by limits on carbon emission production. Read more here. … [Read more...] about US Cap n Trade Legislation Unlikely to Pass
Sceptics Conference in New York, Day 2
James Taylor, in introducing the breakfast speakers, noted his regret that Mr Al Gore and Dr James Hansen had been unable to attend the conference. Read more from Bob Carter here. … [Read more...] about Sceptics Conference in New York, Day 2
Redefining the Limits of Global Warming
YESTERDAY, at the second International Conference on Climate Change in New York, Australian climatologist William Kininmonth explained that: The computer models on which the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change bases its … [Read more...] about Redefining the Limits of Global Warming
Skeptics Conference in New York, Session 1
Richard S. Lindzen ... delivered a biting attack on what he called the “climate alarm movement.” ... Dr. Lindzen also criticized widely publicized assertions by other skeptics that variations in the sun were driving temperature changes in recent … [Read more...] about Skeptics Conference in New York, Session 1
It’s Just Not Possible to Forecast Climate
CLIMATE is complex and represents exactly the kind of system that cannot be modeled with any accuracy. At least that is according to Kesten Green, a forecasting expert at Monash University, Australia. Dr Green argues that a key question when … [Read more...] about It’s Just Not Possible to Forecast Climate